I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
PETRARCHMan has not a greater enemy than himself.
More Petrarch Quotes
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The time will come when every change shall cease, This quick revolving wheel shall rest in peace: No summer then shall glow, not winter freeze; Nothing shall be to come, and nothing past, But an eternal now shall ever last.
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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
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Five enemies of peace inhabit with us – avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
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I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.
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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
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And I live on, but in grief and self-contempt, Left here without the light I loved so much, In a great tempest and with shrouds unkempt.
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For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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